October 12, 2013

The Pantry Quiz #56

One of These Things

One of the four pantry ingredients pictured above is not like the others. (And, no, the answer isn't that I purchased three of the four at Trader Joe's!) Which is the odd ingredient out, and why?

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Please leave your answer in the comments, and let us know whether you have this ingredient in your pantry.

[Last week's answer: You can tell cinnamon and cassia apart in all of the ways listed, but the most sure way is to look at the curl of the quill. Cinnamon rolls into a single quill (like a telescope), while cassia curls from both sides toward the center, like a scroll.]

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Comments

I just heard yesterday that cashews are not nuts. Shame on me, I wasn't really paying attention. I don't know what their outer covering is like. Otherwise my guess would be pinenut? Only because they are in cluster off a pinecone?

Here's my second shot at it. I was just telling my sixteen year old about your post. I remembered some of my friends have tree nut allergies and other have ground nut (peanut) allergies. An some are allergic to all of them. Lucky us, we don't have those allergies...

I would say walnut because it is the only true nut in the group. Or, with Denise, peanuts grow underground, the other 3 grow on trees.
I wonder why peanut allergies are fairly common, but among other legumes (which grow above ground), only soy is a common allergen.

I think it is the peanut as well, since, yes, it is a legume, growing from ground plants. Walnuts, pine nuts, and cashews are all edible seeds from trees. I use all four products. You can always find the seeds (nuts) in my freezer.

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My name is Lydia Walshin. From my tiny kitchen in Boston's South End, I share recipes that use what we keep in our pantries, the usual and not-so-usual ingredients that spice up our lives. Thanks so much for visiting.